Quotes About Fairness

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place

a fim de tratar as pessoas igualitariamente, a sociedade deve dar atenção àqueles com menos dotes inatos e aos oriundos de posições sociais menos favoráveis. A ideia é de reparar o desvio das contingências na direção da igualdade

It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper.

closed system

And the next moment the fierce wind comes screaming, whirling the needle-pointed dust, stifling all hope. And you know then that what has not happened will never happen. That hope is an end within itself. And the fierce wind is an echo of angry childhood and of a very scared boy looking out the window—remembering my dead dog outside by the wounded house as the gray Texas dust gradually covered her up—and thinking: It isnt fair! Why cant dogs go to Heaven?

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Never knowingly undersold.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.

Society between equals can only exist on the understanding that the interests of all are to be regarded equally.

The à priori presumption is in favour of freedom and impartiality.

we do not call anything justice which is not a virtue

The justice of giving equal protection to the rights of all, is maintained by those who support the most outrageous inequality in the rights themselves.

only through diversity of opinion is there, in the existing state of human intellect, a chance of fair play to all sides of the truth.

The second principle revolves around the belief that no one is above the law, not even those

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice , Rose Justice?

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated & helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. That's what I stand for.

I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values." -- Ellen Degeneres

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.